Cloud Engineer Contract Job Trends in Derby

Cloud Engineer
Derbyshire > Derby

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in Derby is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 15 -
Rank change year-on-year 0 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 7 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Derby 4.46% 2.47% -
As % of the Job Titles category 5.38% 2.60% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £444 - -
25th Percentile £453 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £700 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.36% - -
75th Percentile £509 - -
90th Percentile £511 - -
Derbyshire median daily rate £488 £700 -
% change year-on-year -30.36% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Derby

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Derby. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Derby with a recognized job title 130 77 130
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 82.80% 95.06% 98.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 42 85
10th Percentile £204 £171 £160
25th Percentile £428 £316 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +29.41% -10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £645 £588
90th Percentile £656 £725 £600
Derbyshire median daily rate £485 £550 £438
% change year-on-year -11.82% +25.71% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 11 9
10th Percentile £12.76 £24.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £14.93 £25.04 £20.00
Median hourly rate £19.33 £25.15 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year -23.14% +4.01% +36.46%
75th Percentile £25.75 - -
90th Percentile £27.56 - £27.88
Derbyshire median hourly rate £24.28 £25.15 £25.77
% change year-on-year -3.46% -2.39% -6.31%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Derby

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Derby.

Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in Derby

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Derby

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in Derby.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in Derby

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derby

For the 6 months to 12 August 2026, Cloud Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Derby region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (85.71%) Azure AKS
2 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (85.71%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (85.71%) PowerShell
3 5 (71.43%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (71.43%) Cloud Security
3 5 (71.43%) SQL
4 4 (57.14%) Analytics
4 4 (57.14%) ARM Templates
4 4 (57.14%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (57.14%) Entra ID
4 4 (57.14%) IaaS
4 4 (57.14%) Log Analytics
4 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
4 4 (57.14%) PaaS
4 4 (57.14%) Terraform
5 3 (42.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (42.86%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (42.86%) Change Management
5 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
5 3 (42.86%) Cloud Operations
5 3 (42.86%) Cost Management
5 3 (42.86%) Data Lake
5 3 (42.86%) Databricks
5 3 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (42.86%) Firewall
5 3 (42.86%) High Availability
5 3 (42.86%) Incident Response

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derby by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (85.71%) Azure AKS
3 4 (57.14%) Azure Monitor
3 4 (57.14%) Entra ID
3 4 (57.14%) IaaS
3 4 (57.14%) PaaS
4 3 (42.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (42.86%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (42.86%) SaaS
5 1 (14.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security
2 1 (14.29%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (71.43%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (42.86%) Data Lake
4 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (42.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Manufacturing
3 1 (14.29%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
1 3 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (42.86%) Ubuntu
2 2 (28.57%) VMS
3 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
1 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (71.43%) Cloud Security
3 4 (57.14%) Analytics
3 4 (57.14%) Log Analytics
4 3 (42.86%) Change Management
4 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 3 (42.86%) Cloud Operations
4 3 (42.86%) Cost Management
4 3 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (42.86%) High Availability
4 3 (42.86%) Incident Response
4 3 (42.86%) Migration
4 3 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (42.86%) Service Management
5 2 (28.57%) Architecture Governance
5 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
5 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) PowerShell
2 5 (71.43%) SQL
3 3 (42.86%) Python
4 1 (14.29%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
2 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Databricks
2 3 (42.86%) ServiceNow